Our religion is made to eradicate vices, instead it encourages them, covers them, and nurtures them.

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

Walter Pater defined Romanticism as adding strangeness to beauty.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

And still I wander, seeking compensation in unforseen encounters and unexpected sights, in sunsets, storms and passing fancies.

My first jobs were all civil service. At 14, I worked for the Canadian National Railways. At 16, I worked for the Canadian Penitentiary Service.

Near the lake where drooped the willow, Long time ago!

People sometimes have to correct my English. I knew I had a problem when Arnold Schwarzenegger started doing it.

Canada is said to have got its name from the two Spanish words aca and nada, signifying 'there is nothing here.'

And I think that George Bush really is a very godly person.

To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.

You'se something tuh make uh man forgit to git old and forgit tuh die.